From: owner-ecto-digest To: ecto-digest@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto-digest V2 #35 Reply-To: ecto@nsmx.rutgers.edu Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, 27 February 1995 Volume 02 : Number 035 The Ecto digest is now being generated automatically. Please send problems and questions to: ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mk59200@cc.tut.fi (Markku Kolkka) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 15:29:17 +0200 Subject: Electric Sausages (was:Re: Time for a Klaus (VERY long, sorry!)) >Larne shared: > >>While I've never plugged in a hot dog (or a tofu pup) I can highly >>recommend doing this with a pickle. They glow pretty brightly when >>current is passed through them. No, really. The saltier the better. > >Larne, if I'd seen that post before I saw you on Friday night, I would have >ed you soundly for it. Now I'll have to try it! :) I heard the plug-in sausage recipe years ago (but never tried it myself), and it was rather funny to hear it on the Tonight Show. This pickle thing was totally new to me, and I was really surprised that just after I read about it here, I find the newsgroup comp.arch (!) filled with messages about research on "Electro-Vlassic" illumination. Apparently there is a DEC tech note available. - -- Markku Kolkka mk59200@cc.tut.fi ------------------------------ From: susskind@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us (Mark Susskind) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 08:56:27 -0500 (EST) Subject: re-Hello Happy Mardi Gras! Sometimes, you just gotta DANCE. Someone recently called to my attention that, although my name was on the 'Happy birthday' list, I have not sent any notes to ecto in a while. I e- told this person that I don't really have much to e-say because most of what you discuss is out of my league in one way or another. I must admit that I am not an enthusiastic fan of Happy Rhodes. However, I do like Happy to some extent. I have been looking for Building the Colossus and RhodeSongs without success. I have already purchased Rhodes I, II, Rearmament, Ecto, and Warpaint, but I can't do them much justice since I have about 500 other CDs that I also want to play. I read ecto, rec.music.gaffa, really-deep-thoughts, and rec.music.tori-amos through the Big Sky BBS whenever I get the chance, but the volume of notes makes it very difficult to do them justice, too. I have been able to glean a few new CDs from what I do pick up. My latest acquisitions are Whaler from Sophie B. Hawkins, even thought I was far from thrilled with Tongues and Tails, The Divine Comedy from Milla, Return to the Valley of the Go-Gos from The Go-Gos, Harbinger from Paula Cole, and The Line, The Cross, and The Curve video from Kate Bush. Harbinger had an entry form that I filled out and sent to Imago, and, earlier this month, I got a poster of Paula Cole, which was a pleasant surprise. Since I can't really comment on much of your recent notes, I won't bore you with my personal life and so forth. Happy HUGS. Mark Susskind - ---- Mark Susskind susskind@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us The Big Sky BBS (+1 614 864 1198) ------------------------------ From: John Shepard Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 12:39:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: Let's spam listservers! Heh... last week Indyunix went down for a while, and came back up _faster_! I think they (finally) moved it to a faster system, which is great, I can log in and get into Pine and be looking at a message in 30 seconds, where it used to take a minute just to log in. But then Indyvax went down. And then it refused to update Usenet for a couple days. Now I have about four thousand messages to read. And an Econ paper to do. And pictures to draw, people to pester, and of course, mailing lists to post to. Nuffa that. While busy doing nothing this weekend, I happened to think, I seem to remember having seen a Jane Siberry video on VH-1 many moons ago. Best I recall it was from the 1989 era, which was IMO when some of the best music in the world could still be found on Sunday Brunch. I remember almost nothing about the vid, except I was unimpressed at the time, the woman in the video acted... well, strange, which seems to make sense in retrospect, and there were like curtains or something. If I sound like I'm picking on Siberry, I'm not. She's good, real good, but I'm having problems adjusting to her. As I said, I haven't heard any music this dramatically DIFFERENT (for lack of a better word) since _Touch_. And it took me a while to adjust to that. For the curious, my favorite spots on WIWAB are: "Sail Across the Water." This is the one I heard on World Cafe that got my attention. Sounds very Eno, tends to evoke colors and images. "All the Candles in the World." The best video game score I have ever heard was the old 8-bit version of Castlevania. The organ sound on this track evokes memories. But I _really_ love the whole song, that "we're going going forgive us Lord we're going going down..." "The World According to Darkness." Makes the case for Jane as a genius. "I'm holding my sweet momma in my arms..." "Is she dying?" "No, I think she's just been born..." "An Angel Stepped Down..." I recognize Holly Cole's voice in there. Not the best song around, but not bad. "Vigil." In a recent radio interview, Yes was asked "how come you guys don't do long songs anymore?" I think this is the answer: they don't need to. Like Enya after bad acid. I refuse to listen to this one during daylight hours, this way I can shut my eyes and imagine. Not for the faintg of heart. "At the Beginning of Time." Where "World According..." made the case for Jane as genius, and "Vigil" makes case for Jane on some bad drugs, this one makes the case for her as borderline sane. Doesn't someone have a line from this one in their sig? Another "no daylight" one. Other stuff. West Chester? Didn't there used to be a computer company there? They made some bad-ass computers, if I recall... if a concert there falls through, it would still make a good "pilgrimage" for Amiga owners, to see the vast empty Commodore facility there, take pictures of ourselves standing in front of the big Commodore sign out front, the one with the "For Sale" sign on it. This Wednesday cool stuff happens. Sarah will not win the Grammy (much as we'd like, but let's be reasonable, this is the Grammies) and the next day the final stretch of the FTE tour kicks off. At which time I'll be moving to Ecto for a while, at least until after March 15, to avoid any "spoliers" about the concerts (what she wears, what she sings, band lineup, etc). I originally wrote this for Ecto, but then decided I should put it on both ecto and fte. I keep starting identical threads on both groups anyway, why not? - -John [signature engaged in diplomatic relations with itself] [Babylon 5 watchers are at once laughing and barfing from this] ------------------------------ From: Jeffrey Hanson Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 09:57:27 -0800 Subject: Laurie Anderson Saw Laurie Anderson on Saturday night. Wow--what a show. I knew somewhat what it was going to be like, from seeing Home of the Brave and from reading everyone's reviews here on ecto, but I was quite impressed. I was completely captivated by the show--I didn't even want to blink. Plus I found it to provoke much more emotions in me than I had anticipated. The piece she did about Desert Storm especially--but that may be because I had watched Schindler's List again that afternoon. But I was really impressed with her creativity. The whole show flowed seamlessly, and the recurring themes with her electric violin interludes almost made it like a symphony. But much more thought-provoking. Anyway, just want to add my "thumbs up" to all the positive reviews I've read. If you have the opportunity to see her on this tour, do. You won't be disappointed. Jeff Hanson (Boy, its going to be a busy music week, Laurie Anderson last Saturday, Jewel's album released Tuesday, Jewel's CD Release party Thursday night, and Sarah/Paula on Sunday!) ------------------------------ From: buck@satyr.sylvan.com (Michael Butler) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 11:06 PST Subject: Thanks and a query This isn't really a followup, but Mark Susskind writes: > Someone recently called to my attention that, although my name was on the > 'Happy birthday' list, I have not sent any notes to ecto in a while. My name isn't even on the Birthday list (not complaining), and here I am trying (in a low-key way) to get the ecto majordomo to drop me from the list (at present, volume is too high for the once-a-fortnight I can check my mail) ...anyway, to make a long story short, I'm noy having any luck doing it. Could somebody (the admin, perhaps) clue me in? I may be registered as "buckaroo@apple.com", but "buck@satyr.sylvan.com" draws a blank from the poor little robot. Thanks for letting me know about the list many moons ago, Vickie. Hope you and Chris are doing well. And thanks to everyone else for letting me know about lots of people I might otherwise never have heard about..... Michael Butler ............................................................................... "If the big eyes of my God/Were not watching me/I'd steal you away" --Kate Bush "I'm in touch with my feelings. I just don't _rub_ them." buck@satyr.sylvan.com ------------------------------ From: jmn@rocket.com (JOHN NAVROTH) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 08:40:05 -0800 Subject: bside review i don't know if this has been posted yet, but happy's btc was reviewed in the latest issue of bside 'zine...quite favorably, i might add. tower books carries the 'zine. ------------------------------ From: Bren <9021477@ul.ie> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 19:23:07 +0000 (WET) Subject: Re: Terrible news re: Rod L. Bourland. (fwd) >Neil K. writes: > According to Mr. Fisher, Rod Bourland ("Revvie" on #ecto) died very > recently of heart failure. :( :( At this time I don't know any more and I I read this for the first time this morning and it is now evening and it still is on my mind... I knew Rod as Revvie on #ecto and remember him as being a really gentille person who once sent me a really lovely email message about something that really bothered me.... I knew him only marginally....he lived at least 3000 miles away from me and still I feel compelled to add to his eulogy....elegy whatever... As I am an atheist, it would be hypocritical of me to hope that his spirit is in heaven/nirvana/whatever...what I do hope is that Rod's spirit, wherever it may be, is free, happy and dancing to the music he truly loved.... slan go foil a rod, go mbeidh d'anam sabhalta i suiochan.... bren - ---- Bren Vaughan / Creed, depending on the weather.... 9021477@itdsrv1.ul.ie To sleep, perchance to have a cool gory nightmare.... :[ "Lemon pie, he's coming through, our commander still, Space Dog..." Tori Amos ------------------------------ From: Neal Copperman Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 18:09:51 -0500 Subject: Margot and Pieces of You This last weekend I've had a number of interesting ectoish experiences... I was in ROchester visiting a friend and was amazed to see that he had a copy of Margot Smith's "Sleeping With the Lion". I'd heard enough contradictory things about it, from the ravings we have seen here to the occasional "I didn't really like it much"s to be intrigued. I only got a perfunctory listen, but it sounded pretty good to me and I hope to have another shot at it. My friend got his copy from a journalist named Joe, who (if I've got this right) hooked Margot up with Dave Al(something, guy from Shriekback) who signed her to his label. It was just weird for me to see her disc owned by anyone in the US who wasn't on ecto. We hopped over to Lakewood Record Exchange (or Lakeshore, or whatever) where I surprisingly found the Jewel promo disc and the new as yet released Pieces of You in the used bins. I felt too guilty to buy it used, saving myself only a few bucks and not supporting Jewel, but I did track it in the stores. All in all it sounded pretty good. I'm too close to the songs in their coffeehouse format to be able to fairly judge any produced versions of them, so I'm looking forward to others impressions. I did note that Charlotte Caffey of the Go-Go's plays piano on one song and helped with arrangements on three. Pieces of You was vocally overdubbed throughout, which I'll have to decide on later. Also, the closing lines, "Do you hate me because I'm pieces of you" was not recorded in this version. It was weird to hear songs that she refuses to do live without Steve Poltz of the Rugburns recorded without him. I also picked up really cheap versions of the Katell Kennig disc and last years June Tabor release, both as yet unheard. neal ------------------------------ From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 19:09:10 EST Subject: Missed it by that much and other stories I was originally going to title this "Asked and answered and other stories," in honor of the pronouncement from the oracle in Bearsville. But just after I finished reading all the incoming Friday, the system crashed. Anyway.... I managed, Meredith's bon mot notwithstanding, to stay awake for Laurie Anderson's gig on Leno; but I don't remember the bit about how to make hotdogs electrically. WHen I was a kid, we had a hotdog maker, which involved skewering the raw dogs on the metal pegs on either side of the plastic housing; but I always assumed it worked by heat. Learn something new every day :-). That sure was a short interview Leno (or was it Letterman) did with Tori. Brenda Kahn should ask Sara Hickman for pointers. The latter financed _Necessary Angels_ by hat-passing, after her label dumped her. _Morning Edition_ did a story on it sometime back. Chicago residents on this list are hereby implored to vote tomorrow. To the memory of Rod. Mitch ------------------------------ From: Neal Copperman Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 19:20:00 -0500 Subject: Curse of the Demon Ok, so this seems a bit off track (although this is ecto where the track is permanently off), but this will actually tie in. I saw a double feature last night of Curse of the Demon and The Exorcist. (By the way, the Exorcist is the scariest movie I have ever seen. Has anyone ever seen anything more terrifying?) Curse of the Deomn is a 1958 British film by Jacques Tourneur, based on a story called "Casting the Runes" by Mantague James. During a seance in the movie, a character is being warned about the curse which has been given to him. SUddenly, the psychic sits back sharply, changes his voice, and yells out "It's in the trees.... It's coming". Maybe this was well known, but I was certainly thrown for a loop. I went home and pulled out Hounds of Love (luckily haveing 2 copies, since the person I was at the movies with had already borrowed my other) and set it running. Running Up That Hill has a number of very strong parallels with the movie. In the movie, the main character is a psychologist and spiritual sceptic, who is taking over the investigation of a devil cult after the surprise death of the previous investigator. He is passed a mysterious paper with runes on it, which mark him as the victim of the curse. The only way to break this curse is to pass the paper back. This has been dificult for others since the paper usually tries to destroy itself as soon as it is found. One of the earliest stages of the curse is that the victem feels followed and chased, and as they are a victim in a horror film, they've got to walk through the woods a few times. This all correlates pretty strongly with the lines "If I only could make a deal with God, and get him to swap our places. Be running up that hill, be running...... with no problems." and the lines about being able to "exchange the experience". Oddly enough, the "It's in the trees, It's coming" snippet is attached to Hounds of Love, directly following Running Up The Hill, which doesn't seem at all related to the movie. I thought that was pretty cool when I saw it, and wondered if this was a known influence on the song. Either the quote is used somewhere else too, or the movie provided some inspiration, though Kate ran with it in her own way. I hadn't listened to the album for quite a while, and was again reminded of it's sheer brilliance. Neal ------------------------------ From: Neal Copperman Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 19:23:55 -0500 Subject: What's that word? I turn to ecto, the fountain of great knowledge in all subjects, to help me find this word that has been driving me up the wall.j There is a specific word for a product that has become synonymous with the generic good. Like Xerox for photocopying, Q-tip for cotton swab, and Kleenex for tissue. Anyone have any idea what it is? That'll put me closer to sleeping nights, though it won't balance that viewing of the Exorcist. Neal ------------------------------ From: Neile Graham Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 16:42:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: Gabriel Yacoub's new album _Quatre_ is a stunning album. I'll probably say this more than once. Yacoub is the lead singer and the main songwriter (there are trad. parts and one Jacques Brel song). The female vocals are mostly background, but lovely. Yacoub is the lead singer and the main songwriter (there are trad. parts and one Jacques Brel song). Some of you know Yacoub from his French trad. days when he led Malicorne, the French equivalent of Steeleye Span. Few of you will know his later work, like the final Malicorne albums (_Le cathedrales de l'industrie_ etc. where the music got much less traditional and more adventurous. His solo work is even more obscure, except perhaps _Trad. Arr._, which is very like his earlier Malicorne work. _Elementary Level of Faith_ was put out by Shanachie in 1988, but only on vinyl and cassette, and I don't think it sold much and quickly disappeared. It leads my list for the music I most want reissued on disc. It also might be at the top of my Desert Island disc list, though _Quatre_ may edge it out. Yacoub did put out one solo disc that could be found in the U.S., U.K. and France of course, _Bel_ which is very good but to me not essential, at least in comparison. _Quatre_ is. There are still hints of the Malicorne sound. Gabriel voice is still wonderful but not classically "good" at least I don't think so--I'm not an expert. Every song on this disc is good--and they add up, too. _Quatre_ is not only his fourth official solo album, but the songs all fit together under four themes: hymns, charms, liturgy, and speculations. The song that he doesn't fit into these themes, and put the lyrics in the booklet first even though it's the fourth (quatre!) song is the stupendous "Beaute/Twelfth Song of the Thunder". This is an amazing AMAZING song. Among the other incredible songs, there's also a song, "Les Bles sur l'Eau" that makes me incredibly nostalgic, it's so beautiful. Of course, though, the disc is hard to find. A net-acquaintance in France sent me my copy. It is well worth pursuing. Peter Gabriel fans, this Gabriel will blow you away. - --Neile neile@u.washington.edu ------------------------------ From: speedygo@acs.bu.edu Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 20:26:34 -0500 Subject: Lisa Germano in Boston... I'm sorry I missed her at Avalon, but I saw her Newbury Comics appearance and she was nice enough to sign both her CDs and two promo pictures I happened to find. Great music, and she's nice to boot. What a combination... MAG ------------------------------ From: Emily Breed Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 17:24:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: What's that word? On Mon, 27 Feb 1995, Neal Copperman wrote: > There is a specific word for a product that has become synonymous with the > generic good. Like Xerox for photocopying, Q-tip for cotton swab, and > Kleenex for tissue. Anyone have any idea what it is? I've always seen it referred to as "a generic" in magazines like Writer's Digest - usually very near the full-page advertisements taken out by Kleenex and Xerox begging writers not to use their names as generics. :-) - -- Emily ------------------------------ From: itos@pavlov.psyc.queensu.ca (Steve Ito) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 21:14:58 EST Subject: Rita and Friends/Bettie Seveert/Jewel Meredith sed... >We also viewed our newly-acquired tape of Jane Siberry on the Canadian show >"Rita McNeil" (or was it "Rita And Friends"?). Jane was great, but the show >itself was painful. If some Canadian out there would be so kind as to >explain to me just who this Rita person is and why she has her own show, I'd >appreciate it. Thanks. Then we enjoyed the mocha cheesecake Tamar had baked Rita is a country singer who has become quite successful in Canada. A couple of years ago she had a Christmas variety special with a bunch of Canadian musical guests that went over very well, which led to her having her own TV show. Everyone I know has a love-hate relationship with the show... Rita gets some truly amazing guests, some recent ectoish guests have been Jane, the Rankin Family, and Sara Craig. So "Rita and Friends" gets a "Best Musical Guests" award, as well as a "Hunk of Dead Wood Award" (as in "Having the stage presence of a..."). I will freely acknowledge that she is a talented singer and songwriter (although I really don't like her kind of music), her stage manner is as wooden as they come. But despite the painfulness of having to sit through Rita, I'm truly glad we have the show. Before her show we had nothing. Now, we have a showcase for a wide variety of Canadian musical artists, even some as unlikely as Sloan and Sara Craig, which is fantastic. "--r." said... >The other CD what I had in my hot large hand before deciding to get >Portishead was Bettie Serveert's newest -- but I couldn't remember enough >of what was said about her/them here to be really sure about that >purchase. Anyone care to refresh my memory? Their latest is called "Lamprey." I have a ticket for their March 6th show and I am selfishly praying that the sick bandmember will recover in time for the show. (Isn't that terrible? But I can't help the way I feel.) Doesn't look good though, the show isn't even listed in the TicketMaster computer anymore. On the positive side, I've heard Jewel will be playing in Toronto for a few dates (all Mondays). Can anyone post tourdates? Especially in the Ontario/Quebec/NY area? Mondays in Toronto are a little awkward for me. Steve - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Ito, R.A. | "Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says Psychology Dept. | differently is selling something." Queen's University | -- The Dread Pirate Roberts Kingston, ON, Can. | ------------------------------ From: THE OLIVE-LOAF VIGILANTE Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 22:28:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: for revvie Hi... This isn't by Happy, but it's the most appropriate verse I can think of: On the hills of fire the darkest hour I was dreaming of my true love's pyre Who will bring a light to stoke the fire Fear not for you're still breathing On a windless day I saw the life blood drained away A cold wind blows on a windless day Hear the cry for new life the mourning's flame You were the brightest light that burned too soon in vain Who will bring you back from where there's no return Fear not for you're just dreaming On a winter's day I saw the life blood drained away A cold wind blows on a windless day. - Sarah McLachlan "Ben's Song" To Revvie!!! Meredith meth@delphi.com ------------------------------ From: THE OLIVE-LOAF VIGILANTE Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 22:31:34 -0500 (EST) Subject: and now for something completely... Hi! woj got a package from Preston Klik today, and since he's not here I took the liberty of opening it. It contained a copy of Big Hat's new (and, sadly, last :P) album, _Taqueria del Muerte_. On one and a half listens it doesn't pack the sonic body slam that _Selena At My Window_ did immed- iately, but it's definitely good stuff! I highly recommend that if you are even marginally into Big Hat you write to Preston and get yourself a copy of this disc ASAP, before they're gone forever. The address on the disc is 5602 N. Ridge, Section X, Chicago, IL, 60660. Not sure what woj paid for it -- I'll let him tell you. :) woj (who stayed up WAY too late last night, imnsho) replied: >i must say, however, that the sound for happy's set was weird and i >have no idea how it would have come out with my deck. happy sounded >like she was singing through a toliet paper tube, though kelly sounded >fine. the bass was way up and that was doing weird things to the drums >- it was all very sharp and bassy. kevin's guitar sounded fine. >martha's keys were stuffed way in the back. like i said, weird. My ears must not be working -- it sounded fine to me. Hmmm... >i'd kill for a video of the horde of us running (walking briskly, >whatever) down seventh ave (literally, we weren't on the sidewalk - or >was that sidewaulk? ;) attempting to flag down cabs. Yeah, that was pretty amusing. How To Show The World You're Not From New York In One Easy Step. (Note that Shura, who lives in Manhattan, found a cab before the rest of us, and only Jane_Fan was smart enough to jump in with her...) >gotta agree with meth here again. i had one track from their album on >the radio earlier in the week and would've gone out and bought the album >on the strength of that one track alone. i think it was the title track >from _river of falling stars_ - whatever it was, it was mystical and >magical and gorgeous. Yes - it was the title track. I wouldn't mind having the album just for that one song, either... >>Everyone >>who is glad to see that Tori has finally decided to see reason and stop >>perming her hair, please raise your hand. > > ,||| > \_ _| > | | > | | > | | Okay, that's one... >mmmmmmOOOOOOcha cheeeeeesecake! Great, now I'm going to have to explain this. There's a show on the local community station, WFMU (hi, Nick :) called Radioactive Theater. It's three guys doing improv comedy for an hour each Tuesday evening, spurred on by suggestions called in by listeners, and it's positively brilliant. One night in November or so they wanted to set up a conversation between three completely different people whom one would expect would hate each other, and they wanted suggestions for those three people and a location. I called up with the following: Kate Bush, Madonna, and Camille Paglia in a Soho coffeehouse. Well, when I got on the air they didn't want to know the names of these people, they just wanted basic descriptions, and of course in one minute or less I couldn't begin to do Kate, Madonna, or Camille justice. The skit turned out to be a bust, but one funny bit was how they portrayed the "thirty- something British art-rock singer who is has never broken through in the States": she just sat in the corner singing "I want a mmmmmmmmOOOOOchaccino" in a high soprano voice the entire time. Okay, maybe you had to be there. I've got it on tape somewhere, if you're really *that* interested, (I'll be worried if anyone is). >yep. she performed "caroline," "they don't know" and one other song (can't >remember off the top of my head). lots of interesting chat, too. meth has >since heard it so maybe she'll have more to say next post. Um, not really. I think it was a mistake for her to work with Evan Dando, but I don't like her any less for it. >>woj and I saw [Brenda Kahn] play at the Sidewaulk Cafe in Soho > >or was that sidewalk? ;) That's how they spell the name, isn't it? Michael Bravo informed: >On the top is not even a decent ordinary rock, but mostly various cheesy and/or >sugar-encrusted songs. There is a fair amount of good rock, some of the bands >already being in the very-well-known stage, but it exists in a separate world. Are these chart-topping bands Russian, or do you get stuff like Whitney Houston and Ace of Base too? >What for CDs, basically the mainstream stuff is available easily, but >ecto-titles are medium to hard to find. There's an awful lot of Bulgarian and >Chinese bootlegs of varying quality, and these can cost from $2 to $10. I don't know if you've heard about this, but there is currently a big series of talks going on between the American and Chinese governments about these mass-produced bootlegs of American copyrighted recordings. If China agrees to crack down on the bootleg factories, then they get some nice trade perks. If they don't, then it's trade war time. Sigh. Intellectual property, and all that... what a mess. >'Real' >CDs can cost from $7 to $20 and sometimes more. For example I bought Cocteau >Twins _Treasu_ and Alison Moyet _Essex_ for $19 each. Hey, that's not too bad! I'm impressed. >They have both character sets. All it takes is a small resident program called >keyboard driver, which allows you to tap a right Control or another key of your >choice and switch current character set to another one. Screen fonts are >similarly controlled by the same or another small driver. There are freeware >ones if u're interested :) :) Thanks, but Cyrillic melts my brain. Never took Russian, though enough of my friends did! Are both sets of characters printed on the keys too? John Shepard opined: >While busy doing nothing this weekend, I happened to think, I seem to >remember having seen a Jane Siberry video on VH-1 many moons ago. Best I >recall it was from the 1989 era, which was IMO when some of the best >music in the world could still be found on Sunday Brunch. I remember >almost nothing about the vid, except I was unimpressed at the time, the >woman in the video acted... well, strange, which seems to make sense in >retrospect, and there were like curtains or something. Hmmm... in 1989 I saw both the videos for "Bound By The Beauty" and "Something About Trains" on VH-1, before I'd really heard of Jane (when I got back to school and discovered her album at the radio station and blindly put on "Half Angel Half Eagle" to start off my show that day, I was lost forever). Don't recall curtains in either of those vids, and Jane was at her most "normal" at that time, so maybe VH-1 was showing other stuff of hers too??? Intriguing! >If I sound like I'm picking on Siberry, I'm not. She's good, real good, >but I'm having problems adjusting to her. As I said, I haven't heard any >music this dramatically DIFFERENT (for lack of a better word) since >_Touch_. And it took me a while to adjust to that. John, allow me to introduce you to Kate Bush. Kate, did you bring your copy of _The Dreaming_? Thank you. John, prepare for the ride of your life. ;> >"All the Candles in the World." The best video game score I have ever >heard was the old 8-bit version of Castlevania. The organ sound on this >track evokes memories. But I _really_ love the whole song, that "we're >going going forgive us Lord we're going going down..." The day WIWAB came out, I was scheduled to do my show that evening. I left work 15 minutes early so I could stop by the record store and pick it up on my way to the station. I unwrapped it on the air, and picked track 5 randomly. And was so blown away, I forgot to cue up the next song -- so central Connecticut got treated to two consecutive, amazingly incredible new Jane Siberry tracks. >"At the Beginning of Time." Where "World According..." made the case for >Jane as genius, and "Vigil" makes case for Jane on some bad drugs, this >one makes the case for her as borderline sane. Doesn't someone have a >line from this one in their sig? Another "no daylight" one. "and every once in a while a bird would not fly by and someone would say, 'what wasn't that?'" Jane is a genius, folks. Deal with it. :) Hey, did anybody happen to be watching eMpTV this evening around 7:50 PM EST? I was flipping through the channels to get to the one DS9 is on when I ran into some college kids, one of whom looked *really* familiar (though I hope she'd be graduated by now!), sitting in a house that looked a lot like the Eclectic house at Wesleyan University. These kids looked like the kind to live in Eclectic, and one of them was interviewed sitting in a Large Red Chair which was the spitting image of the one that was built for a production of a few Ionesco one-acts and has lived in the house ever since the show was performed on the Eclectic stage, about 5 years ago now. Am I on serious drugs, or was MTV News doing something on current anarchy in the USA and using Wesleyan's Eclectic house as an example? The thread spooled right into something about Lollapalooza without even a pause for breath, so I have no clue what I saw. Any help would be appreciated -- this has got me really wondering now. Thanks. +==========================================================================+ |Meredith Tarr meth@delphi.com| |Boonton, NJ USA finger info at: mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu| +==================***The Christian Right Is Neither***====================+ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V2 #35 ************************* ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu